Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "The Texas Fetal Heartbeat Abortion Bill is Terribly Non-Pragmatic but SCOTUS Upheld it Anywyas" video.

  1.  @rexcatston8412  Yes. Roe v Wade is a very shaky decision, defended by hysteria rather than logic. It's based on 1960s (early '70s) science establishment's understanding of the viability of the fetus. As we push the definition of "viable life" closer to the moment of conception, we push the definition of legal abortion closer to the moment of birth. This was bound to reach a flashpoint, eventually. Roe v Wade was unassailable, with all the momentum, for a long time, but it's going to be revisited, with 50 years of new science informing the decision. One day, we'll be able to store fertilized embryos indefinitely, making much of the abortion question moot, or at least changing the discussion quite radically. Why abort when you can put the kid on ice 'til you're ready to raise it? Anyway, this is a discussion that Styx sounds awfully unprincipled about. A libertarian arguing against the civil rights of the very young, essentially. It's just a very sad thing. We've been committing infanticide since the Stone Age, and probably administering abortifacts since that time. Hunter-gatherers are pretty savvy about such things, always on the lookout for new food sources, trying to eat just about everything they could lay their hands on in the battle for survival. I imagine it was always a sad thing, done only in extremis, in times of famine, and often after birth. Too many mouths to feed. The tribe can't afford it, but always wishes it could. It's especially heartbreaking in a civilized society with real resources and supposedly real education. Abortion should be safe and rare. With over 3 million a year, it's not at all rare, which should be a major embarrassment, at the very least. Many view it as a human rights atrocity, and a clear indication of a dysfunctional society.
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